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L. OBBRLANDER.

GAB. GOUPLING.

No. 351,123. Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

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LORENZ OBERLANDER, OF BALDYVINSVILLE, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO JACOB O. KENYON, OF SAME PLACE, AND GEORGE L. BROVN AND REUBEN J. GETZ, OF BUFFALO, N EV YORK.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,123, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed September 7', 1886. Serial No. 212,897. (No model.)

To a# whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LORENZ OBERLANDER, of Baldwinsville, county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Couplings, oi' which the following is aspeciiication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which* Figure l is a plan View of the partsin their zo coupled position, Fig. 2, alongitudinal section taken on line x x, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, an end View, and Fig. 4L a detail view, of coupling-hook.

Similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved car-coupling, operating automatically in coupling the cars together, and uncoupled by a lever mechanism operated from 23 the side of a freight-car or from the platform of a passenger-coach.

It is constructed as follows: -A is the frame of the car, shown in the drawings as that of a freight-car, and in which the bumper B is 25 mounted in any ordinary manner, the drawbar being provided with a spring and a retaining-nut in the ordinary manner. 4The body of this bumper consists of an upper plate, 1, a lower plate, 2, and a plate, 3, con- 3o necting them to each other at their rear ends and also to the draw-bar. rlhe front ends of these bodyplates are connected by the bolts or pins 4t and 5. The space between these plates should be wide enough to cover thevariation in the heights of the bumpers in different cars. The pins 4: are shown in the drawings as constructed with the lower end larger than the top, and with a shoulder or its equivalent.

O is my coupling-hook, consisting of a flat body, 6, provided with a side arm, 7, having upon its outer end a head, 8, standing at an angle to the line of the arm, which head eX- tends or projects both above and below the arm,1 substantially as shown, and also provided with a point, 9, rounded and beveled back to and forming the hook 10. Between this hook and arm l locate the hole to receive the pivot-pin 4L, tting loosely thereon and ment with the pins 5.

5o resting upon its shoulder. ln the rear end of this coupler I make a hole or holes, 11, to receive one end of the spring l2, and also of the chain 13. The other end ot' the spring 12 is secured to one of the frame timbers. The outer end ofthe chain 13 is led outward over 55 an idler, 14, and thence upward to and is connected to the handle 15, which is fulcrumed upon the side ol' the car, substantially as shown.

The top plate of the bumper passes through 6o the hangers 16, and has au endwise movement therein.

A bail, 17, is thrown over the inner part ot' the coupler to prevent its tlopping up or down.

Itis operated as follows: Taking the parts in position, as shown in Fig. 1, coupled together, to uncouple them l press down the lever-handle l5, and this, through the chain 13, draws the inner end ofthe coupler on that car inward. As this movement continues,the head 8 of this coupler encounters the hook (or beveled end) of the other coupler and wedges the hook out of engagement with the pin 5. At the same time this motion operates to draw the other hook out of its engagement with its pin 5. In fact, Whenever either handle is operatcd, the heads 8 of the couplers engage with the adjacent hooks and both hooks are disengaged simultaneously. In coupling cars together the beveled points oi' the hooksiirst en- 8O counter the pins 5 and wedge past them until the springs 12 throw the hooks into engageln the bumper-plates I also make holes 18, to be used with an ordi` nary link-and-pin coupling Whenever it may I be necessary. The heads 8 are elongated vertically in order to insure their proper engagement with the couplers, as described, when one bumper is higher than the other.

Having thus described my invention, what I 9o claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1; A car-coupling consisting of the reciprocating couplers O, pivot-ally mounted in the bumpers and engaging with pins therein, and o5 provided with an operating-lever connected to each coupler, in combination with the bumpers B and frames A,substantially as shown and described.

2. A car-coupling consisting of two eouproo 1ers, C, ech provided with a beveled hookedf In witness whereof I have hereunto set my point, and a side arm provided with a head, hand this 2d day 0f September, 1886.

8, and pivotally mounted inthe bumpers, and

each connected to an operating-lever on the LORENZ OBERLANDER. 5 outside of the ear, in combination with the bumpers B,p1ovided with pins 4 and 5, mount- In presence ofed in the car-frames, substantially as shown, WM. G. RAYMOND,

amdl described. L. F. SMITH. 

